Mis queridos Colombianos, Tengo ocho preguntas. 1.) Que dicen las madres cuando sus hijas salen de la casa llevando pantalones blancas y transparentes con tangas rojas y sin brassiere? No pregunto por criticar – de hecho, yo apoyo el estilo – solo pregunto por curiosidad. 2.) Si “ahora” quiere decir “luego”, como se dice ahora? [...]

I just got back from Centro Comercial Monterrey where I had to pick up a DV Firewire cable in order to transfer some digital video from casette to hard drive. At the store I noticed they were selling iPhones so, out of curiosity, I asked the price. “1,800,000 pesos.” That’s about $900. And so I [...]

I tend to not speak much on the podcasts I publish here, but this time my good buddy Jorge and I talk a little bit about why we like the songs we chose. (And Jorge teaches us how to yodel). The podcast is in Spanish and English. Normalmente no hablo mucho en los podcasts que [...]

How did this all happen? How was it that just a few months ago I was sitting in a swanky Nairobi bar with Daudi Were, chatting about the good life, and brainstorming ideas for an African Bloggers Conference. And now … this? That photograph was taken in Nakuru – a smallish city in Eastern Kenya, [...]

All this blah-blah-blah about citizen media and the democratization of participatory communication … all the traveling and the workshops and the guides and conference panels … the true end-goal of it all … the dream … the mecca … was to get mentioned in a rap song. And now that it’s happened, I’m trying to [...]

Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas participant and Aymara translator, Dora Romero. Congratulations Voces Bolivianas for the much-deserved recognition! You can [...]

I’ve got a billion things to do before giving a workshop on digital photography and Flickr this evening at the Biblioteca Publica Piloto (come by if you’re around!), but this is way too cool to not comment on. So, Dunstan Orchard, an avid Faceballer originally from England, but now living in San Francisco and working [...]

It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore. That’s what Apple CEO Steve Jobs had to say [...]

Cuando subes a un autobus aquí en Medellin puede ser mucho más que transporte público. Dependiendo de tu gusto musical, a veces te toca el placer (o la mala suerte) de un concierto de rap. Aunque la cultura de hip hop ya es algo fuerte, pocas son las oportunidades de tocar en vivo o grabar [...]

Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.